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[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Oh look. Assange. Again. It's like when you click on a link hoping someone's been more clever than to try rickrolling again, but they haven't.

It's worth noting that there has been plenty of criticism from leading US journalism outlets over the handling of Assange's case. Answer honestly, would you ever see that in China?

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Criticism of the handling of a journalist is not the same as criticism of war crimes and black ops carried out by the government. Assange was imprisoned because he was exposing the lies, deceptions and horrible actions the US empire was (is, of course, too) carrying out. Good luck finding information about China massacring civilians when they invade a country with an army and steal their resources. A hint, it's not going to happen.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Assange was imprisoned because he was exposing the lies, deceptions and horrible actions the US empire was (is, of course, too) carrying out.

Is that so? Then why do other journalistic outlets routinely get damning leaks without having legal action brought against them? Why is Assange the only example of a journalist prosecuted by the US that ever gets brought up?

[-] SIGSEGV@waveform.social 0 points 1 year ago

Are you trying to argue that China isn't a terrible, totalitarian state? What is your point, even? Chinese whataboutism is so obnoxious.

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